Second, both countries try to strengthen economic co-operation by tapping each other's advantages to make up for their own deficiencies.

With their own particular economic strong points behind them, China and Russia share a common border of 4,200 kilometres and boast vast markets. The potential for co-operation, therefore, is huge.

Third, both countries cope with the changing situations in the international arena on the basis of consensus.

China and Russia have much common ground with regard to the situations on the international political terrain and policies taken to assure world peace and stability. This involves their perspectives of the world political framework and regional hot spots and their outlooks on traditional and non-traditional threats to security.

Fourth, both countries, by enhancing mutual political trust, try to remove stumbling blocks that stand in the way of the improvement of the bilateral relations.

Instead of looking away from the difficulties in the China-Russia relationship, the leaders of both countries look squarely at them and try to come up with effective ways to overcome them.

The Chinese-Russian relations take on salient features: The relations are of strategic co-operation and yet non-alignment in nature. Both nations enjoy close ties and yet are not interdependent on each other. Disputes crop up time and again but are settled through negotiations. Both countries attach importance to their bilateral ties with the United States and yet are opposed to unilateralism. They are trying to bring about a multi-polar world but refrain from seeking hegemony.

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